"Holograph, signed. Oliver Johnson encloses Mr. [Henry Ward] Beecher's sermon on the death of Lincoln. Oliver Johnson writes: \"I think, if our friends manage wisely, that we shall get a vote to dissolve; but I may be mistaken. W.P. [Wendell Phillips] will no doubt exert himself to the utmost\" [to continue the American Anti-Slavery Society]. Oliver Johnson tells an anecdote, presenting an analogy to the folly of some abolitionists. He concludes that if \"[Wendell] Phillips, P.P. [Parker Pillsbury] and they F.s [Fosters] choose to wear the 'old clothes' of the American A.S. Society after they are thrown aside, let them.\""
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"Letter from Oliver Johnson, Anti-Slavery Office, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman, 4 May 1865"
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creators
"Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889 (Author); Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 (Addressee)"
